Comments on: Morning Metro: Ponce Market Recycling Debris, Another Big DeKalb Lawsuit, and the Impossibilities of Domestic iPhones

By: Parker Cross

Parker Cross — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:18:51 +0000

Interesting choice. I’ll have to go down there and check it out for myself.

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:59:32 +0000

I think Foxconn and Chinese capitalism in general needs to be viewed in context with the everyday conditions of the Chinese people. It’s all about context.

If Foxconn is so terrible, then why do people flock to get jobs there? Because they’re better off, one must assume. But why is that? Is communist China the reason for the poverty in that country or is it culture or something else? I think that’s the discussion that needs to be had before we even tackle the specific human rights issues with Foxconn.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:53:49 +0000

Agree that free enterprise in China seems to be playing out like life on the commune. There’s lots of these paradoxes around. IBM corporate culture of the 1960s and 1970s always seemed like socialism to me. Military too. Likewise current conservative libertarianism seems akin to the radical left of the last century to me.

I’m a big fan of the moderate middle. Not happy with any economic or social developments that favor the extremes and threaten the middle.

By: There's a Parking Lot in the Square

There's a Parking Lot in the Square — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:37:01 +0000

Read the story on iPhones and this excerpt really stood out for me:

“A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started 12-hour shifts fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”

ummm…..funny….. pure capitalism kind of sounds like communism. Its wierd. Almost a different side of the same coin. Instead of centralized govt power its centralized corporate power. Seriously….what American is going to want to live a life like that? It sounds like our iPhones are made by modern day slaves.

That article was very disturbing to me.

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:36:16 +0000

Yeah, what the hell Nature??

By: Mr. Boh

Mr. Boh — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:34:01 +0000

Why thank you. I am indeed from the Land of Pleasant Living.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:26:43 +0000

Good. Why should everything be brown or green?

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:18:49 +0000

I miss “Shop” and “Home Ec”. Not to track kids but as a requirement for both girls and boys. Everyone should know how to hem the bottom of a skirt or pants, handle food safely, drill a hole in the proper place on a wall, and prepare and paint a surface, by the time they are an adult.